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iobj: indirect object

The indirect object is the third core argument of a verb, after the subject and the direct object. If no direct object is present or the direct object is dislocated, then what we ordinarily call “indirect object” will be labeled with the obj relation instead (see (2)).

# visual-style 1 2 iobj	color:blue
# visual-style 1	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 1	fgColor:white
# visual-style 2	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 2	fgColor:white
1	給	_	VERB	_	_	0	root	_	give
2	他	_	PRON	_	_	1	iobj	_	3SG.M
3	兩	_	NUM	_	_	5	nummod	_	two
4	本	_	NOUN	_	_	3	clf	_	CL:book
5	書	_	NOUN	_	_	1	obj	_	books

1	"Give	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
2	him	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
3	two	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
4	books."	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_

1	今年	_	NOUN	_	_	2	obl:tmod	_	this-year
2	給	_	VERB	_	_	0	root	_	give
3	他	_	PRON	_	_	2	obj	_	3SG.M
4	吧	_	PART	_	_	2	discourse:sp	_	SP

1	"This	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
2	year	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
3	let's	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
4	give	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
5	(it	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
6	to)	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
7	him."	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_


iobj in other languages: [bej] [bg] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fr] [fro] [gsw] [gub] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [la] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [ssp] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [vi] [xcl] [yue] [zh]